Word has been received of the death earlier this month of former Michigan State Trooper Norman John Lohroff, has died at age 88.
Lohroff, who retired after serving more than 27 years at the Wayland post of the Michigan State Police in 1993, was born in 1937, and most recently lived at 374 137th Ave, Wayland, (Leighton Township).
Highlights of his career he recalled included an arson arrest for the Ponderosa Bar in Hilliards and and catching an armed robber in Hooper. He also single-handedly nabbed a youth who was committing a string of larcenies from vehicles in a neighborhood. Perhaps his most well known roles was one of the responding officers in a standoff with Dennis Roxbury in Hopkins that resulted in a shooting death.
Among his survivors are Kimberly Brown, Aaron Lohroff, Amy Lohroff, Barbara Lohroff, Darlene Lohroff, Quin Lohroff, Toni Lohroff,Victor Lohroff and Katherine Shapiro.
